Transporting Chaucer

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This dazzlingly original study gives us a new Chaucer, or I should say "new Chaucers": a multiplicity of Chaucers within and around and subsequent to his text. Helen Barr populates her book with Chaucer stand-ins, doubles, images, lurkers and avatars--all testifying to the inexhaustible suggestiveness of the original text and its unending cultural resonance. This is a bold book, a true departure, teeming with new leads and prompts and suggestions. It is essential reading, the best on its subject to appear in a long, long time., Paul Strohm, Garbedian Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, Columbia University; Honorary University Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London, Review, 2014|Transporting Chaucer is a quirky book, even admittedly so. It opens with a consideration of a suspended modern sculpture in Canterbury Cathedral that poses questions of place, memory, and embodiment that the author wishes to raise more generally-as well as a sense of surprise and accidental discovery, governed by the intrusion of the past into the present (and vice versa) that animates the project(s).

, Elizabeth Scala, The Review of English Studies, 18 June 2015 -- .